I doubt Matt has them all memorized, so it would probably help to list the ones we know of so far.
<i>
<b>
<img src>
<a href>
<blink>
<marquee>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<small>
<strike> posted by Bugbread at 5:02 AM on April 14, 2005
... some more...
<code>
<pre>
<xmp>
<strong>
<em> posted by jpburns at 5:16 AM on April 14, 2005
s alone also works posted by amberglow at 5:24 AM on April 14, 2005
underline <u> posted by quonsar at 5:30 AM on April 14, 2005
big <big><big><big> posted by quonsar at 5:32 AM on April 14, 2005
Is blink disabled? I tested the ones I hadn't tried in preview (at great fear of actually hitting post by mistake) and nothing happened with that one. posted by Slack-a-gogo at 5:50 AM on April 14, 2005
span is dropped, iirc (at least in the main pages; anything goes in the user pages, afaik) posted by andrew cooke at 6:15 AM on April 14, 2005
I did find a problem with <code> and <pre> when I was trying to post snippets of code in this AskMe posting.
A weird "br>" would get stuck in a line... some post-processing thingie that Matt probably wrote. I think it's busted... posted by jpburns at 7:48 AM on April 14, 2005
Somewhere in MetaTalk, there's a thread that went unanswered. The author of the thread then continued to make little comments and stories in the thread, making fun of the fact that nobody had answered it once it dropped off the front page.
I can't find the thread, but it included a scrolling marquee with a solid bright green background color applied. So, somehow you can do colors. Beats me though. posted by odinsdream at 9:45 AM on April 14, 2005
don't put html in the tagging part of your post. posted by Stynxno at 9:59 AM on April 14, 2005
Odinssdream - it was a post by the god-like Jim Jones highlighted to the community by the goddess-like naxosaxur. posted by jasper411 at 10:07 AM on April 14, 2005
This seems a good place to post this:
To write the ampersand in one has to use &
So to write you would have to write &nbsp; .
Note that when you hit preview your & will be eaten, so you may wish to use copy/paste accordingly. posted by Ryvar at 10:09 AM on April 14, 2005
I'm gonna have to start using more horizontal rules in my posts. posted by monju_bosatsu at 10:36 AM on April 14, 2005
The Capn once said:
<cite> works too. posted by Capn at 10:51 AM on April 14, 2005
odiesdream - Especially when on a single line like that. Nearly unreadable. posted by raedyn at 10:51 AM on April 14, 2005
d'oh! That was meant to be odinsdream. But now evertime I see odinsdream, I'm going to think of garfield and scrolling lines on hot pink. eek! posted by raedyn at 10:54 AM on April 14, 2005
jpburns - that was because you had a < in your code/text. posted by andrew cooke at 11:10 AM on April 14, 2005
mendel, that is (and I don't use this term lightly) rad. posted by gleuschk at 11:31 AM on April 14, 2005
I dare not experiment for obvious reasons.
Jesus Christ, Alex. Matt gonna ban you for using blink, or something? Just pick an old MeTa thread, (or hell, a current one) and to your heart's conent. posted by graventy at 11:52 AM on April 14, 2005
Add <acronym> and <abbr> to the list. I use those all the time. posted by mcwetboy at 12:03 PM on April 14, 2005
Hmm...Several of those entries above were doubled up.
mcwetboy, thanks for the acronym and abbr codes, I wasn't aware of those. Kinda cool.
So, with those added, and the doubled up ones removed:
<a href>
<abbr> (Doesn't work in IE)
<acronym>
<b>
<big>
<blink> (Doesn't work in IE)
<blockquote>
<br>
<button>
<center>
<code>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
<em>
<form>
<hr>
<i>
<img src>
<input>
<li>
<marquee direction="up">
<marquee>
<ol>
<option>
<pre>
<q>
<s>
<select>
<small>
<strike>
<strong>
<u>
<ul>
<xmp> posted by Bugbread at 12:11 PM on April 14, 2005 [3 favorites]
Mendel that is the only, and I mean only good use of the marquee tag in the history of MeFi. Hell, on the entire Internet. posted by Ryvar at 12:38 PM on April 14, 2005
mendel wins! posted by deborah at 12:42 PM on April 14, 2005
Thanks, everyone! What a fun thread. posted by AlexReynolds at 12:56 PM on April 14, 2005
mendel wins!
At least until someone trumps him by taking his idea and making an ASCII Frogger screen out of it. posted by me3dia at 2:08 PM on April 14, 2005
Instead of talking about what I allow, I approach the coding by allowing all, and merely blocking truly nefarious things while trusting users to act in good faith.
So you can do anything on the front page, but the following is stripped out:
paragraph tags, since I don't want to encourage people to take up too much vertical space
script tags, since there is very little chance outside of cross-site-scripting hacks that it would be used.
inline styles, also for various cross-site-scripting hack reasons.
Pretty much everything else is allowed, but that doesn't mean you should use it all. posted by mathowie at 2:26 PM on April 14, 2005
AOL! Mendel wins!!! posted by grouse at 3:24 PM on April 14, 2005
... blocking truly nefarious things while trusting users to act in good faith.
Ah, I remember when I was young enough to think like this, too. posted by dg at 3:35 PM on April 14, 2005
Great thread, AlexReynolds. posted by dfowler at 8:29 AM on April 15, 2005
Well, here's my best offering of primitive marquee animation. A lot more seems possible, though, especially with layered blitting like this. Each marquee has as many BRs as necessary for the "layers" in the animation, and with an up or down scroll, each line is shown in sequence one at a time. This one is offset line by line, each marquee containing eight blank frames and one number frame. The topmost has the first frame filled in and eight blanks following, while the second one down has the second frame filled in and a blank first and 2-8th frame... and so on.
I screwed up line 9 somehow. posted by odinsdream at 1:32 PM on April 15, 2005
Ha, That's pretty damn neat, odinsdream! posted by Peter H at 2:13 PM on April 15, 2005
(this has been in preview on a hidden tab at work for four days now. with everyone gone, i might as well post it) posted by nobody at 12:12 PM on April 19, 2005 [10 favorites]
when i was little my friend had a sandbox in her backyard.
you'd have to wrap the thin curly metal bits around your finger
and then you could spin it so fast
you couldn't tell which way it was going and which part was where.
diary entry: the marquee tag is interpreted very differently in different browsers. In firefox on a PC apparently the browser won't interpret two marquee tags on the same line, so an artificial linebreak is inserted. (thus april 20-22 are broken and the sandbox and loom are double-spaced). In explorer on a mac the height variable is interpreted differently (so the april 19th junk post before the sandbox post is broken and odinstream's post looks like just a line of numbers scrolling smoothly upward.)
at work i've been using safari on a mac:
in safari on the mac a linebreak between two marquee instances doesn't introduce an additional space between each line, so the sandbox is more highly compressed and the loom feels much more like interlocking \/\/\/\/\/\/\'s. all the rest are single character-width marquees lined up next to each other. explorer on pc is closest. i'll have to test firefox on a mac next week.
oh, the fishtank looks nice in firefox/pc. in safari/mac, there are two marquees per line and so the fish collide and the brown bar looks like a mistake. posted by nobody at 4:52 PM on April 22, 2005
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<i>
<b>
<img src>
<a href>
<blink>
<marquee>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<small>
<strike>
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